Thread: LR stub axles for trailer

Your not alone.
This is what I'm doing.
Only have to carry one type of bearing, rims, tyres,other parts etc.

mate it works like a dream....

but dont go oil filled on a trailer, if it sits for a while the top half of the seal dries out and when it turns the oil gets thrown out.

since you wont be using the drive flange correclty weld it up and then drill and tap a grease nipple into it. then Every time your about to go out give it a single shot of grease.

when you jsut start to get the grease flicking up from the seal dont add any more untill you pull them down to repack them and then its a case of rinse and repeat.

Hmm, I had thought of the half bearing sitting out of the oil bath... what about an oil / grease blend???? I really dont like grease nipples on boat trailer hubs for there lovely habit of unseating the seal letting in the salt.

will measure up the 130 tommorrow and get onto making the axle. long shot but anyone know the distance from flange to flange (not including stubs) for a sals axle???

steve

Lots of people have done that . . . they just tend to use Toyota parts!!!

I'll be doing the same thing, whenever I get around to it. (Er, with Landie, not Toyo parts though.) I did have a trailer once with grease-nippled hub caps and that worked really well, and it was a trailer that sat around a bit, too, but the bearings were fine anyway.

Now I just need an engine that could actually pull a trailer.

will measure that tomorrow and yes the one shot semifluid grease is great in bearings but I dont advocate using it for boat trailer bearings as it really really really does not like water...

in sort of the same way that burning aluminium doesnt like water.

I have had the same idea in the back of my mind for several years now. I am thinking about the possibility of making the actual axle from two long section axle housing halves welded together. I will actually be using Series bits, as I have plenty of them.

My current box trailer is running on Series hubs and bearings with adapters I turned up to fit the original axle. The drive flanges have press fit blanking pieces blocking the hole, but you could even use two mudguard washers with a bolt through the middle and some silicone gasket sealer.

One point worth bearing in mind is that the bearings will have a much larger load safety margin - remember these bearings operate quite happily on the rear of a 130, and few if any trailers would have an axle loading approaching that.

John

Yeah John, the axle loading is one of the reasons i think the ford slimlines are flogging out so readilly on those wonderful cape corries... will take a few photos and measurements, being a boat trailer the springs, hangers, shackles, guards will be mounted to a 50X50X6mm angle cradle which will get gal dipped then bolted to the trailer chassis. Once im happy with the loading position I will tack weld the cradle for corrie gaurding.

steve

Well the axle is getting machined up.

For future reference a LR axle from flange of stub to flange of stub is ~1386mm.

The only real issue is then to work out wheel offsets. I want the trailer to +/- track with the 130, but the trailer wheels are disco so I jiggled my axle length to allow for the deeper offset on the disco rims, 20mm bigger offset per wheel, so my axle is going to be 1425mm.

To make the trailer axle flanges less complicated the inner part of the stub axles will be machined down, all they will leave is the 5mm locating lip, the axle will be machined to accept this. Obviously that will make the stub axles "custom" but I figure they will last a long time and Ill probably never have to replace them.

While Brad is doing all this machining I am getting him to ream out the splines in a pair of old drive flanges. I will cap the flanges off with a filler for the trailer but they will also double as "free wheeler hub" say if i do a diff or a CV... rather than pulling axles (maxis not so easy to pull)/ CV out bush I can just rattle off the drive shaft, swap the maxi flanges on the 130 to the non engaging trailer flanges and run in 2WD??? never know when it will come in handy!

will whack up piccies once the job is done.

Steve